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- Title
ENTRE EL DOLOR Y LA ARMONÍA. EL HOMÚNCULO EN LA PINTURA DE ANTONI TÀPIES.
- Authors
García Perera, José Manuel
- Abstract
«Between pain and harmony. The homunculus in Antoni Tàpies's painting». Following the Second World War, destruction becomes especially present in art. Europe is destroyed, and painting assumes this devastation as part of its essence. The homunculus, symbol of the degraded human body, spreads as an icón of suffering in Spain as well, where the Civil War and the postwar trigger destructive works of art. This paper focuses on the figure of Antoni Tapies to find a link between a horrifying scene and a special approach to the creative act through critical texts and especially through what the painter himself has stated in essays and interviews. The painting of Antoni Tapies presents the destruction of the body through its fragmentation and through painting materials that suggest wounded flesh. But this destruction can be harmonious: it is the dissolution of the body's matter into the matter of the cosmos, the definitive unión. Both senses of destruction, violent and peaceful, coexist in Tapies's painting, and with them a rest of hope exists: human being can fully rebom again.
- Publication
Bellas Artes, 2016, Issue 13, p111
- ISSN
1645-761X
- Publication type
Article